Snowboarding glossary

Cant - A term used to describe the angle at which either foot is positioned medially or laterally from a vertical axis. In other words, how much angle beneath your feet from side to side bends your knees together or apart.

Chicken Salad Air - The rear hand reaches between the legs and grabs the heel edge between the bindings while the front leg is boned. Also, the wrist is rotated inward to complete the grab.

Coping - A reference to the edge of the lip which runs the length of a halfpipe wall.

Crail Air - The rear hand grabs the toe edge in front of the front foot while the rear leg is boned.

Crippler - An inverted aerial where the snowboarder performs a 180 degree flip. In other words, the athlete approaches the wall riding forward, becomes airborne, rotates 90 degrees, flips over in the air, rotates another 90 degrees, and lands riding forward.

Crossbone Method Air - A Method Air where the back leg is boned.

Crooked Cop Air - Free riding version of the mosquito air. see Mosquito Air

Disaster - A lip trick where one gets "hung up" on the coping, most often with the board perpendicular to the coping.

Double Grab - Basically, doing two separate tricks while in the air. One goes off of a jump, grabs the board one way, then grabs it in another way, then lands.

Duckfoot - A term used to describe stance angles with toes pointing outward......like a duck.

Effective Edge - The length of metal edge on the snowboard which touches the ground; it is the effective part which is used to make a turn. Therefore, it does not include the edge of the tip and tail.

Eggflip - An Eggplant where the athlete chooses to flip over in order to re-enter the pipe instead or rotating 180 degrees. Thus, this trick is performed forward to fakie......or switchstance (fakie to forward).

Eggplant - A one handed 180 degree invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the wall and the rotation is backside.

Elgeurial(BFM) - An invert where the halfpipe wall is approached fakie, the rear hand is planted, a 360 degree backside rotation is made, and the rider lands going forward.

Eurocarve - A term used to describe a certain mode of riding in which the rider makes large and hard cutting turns; usually getting way up on the edge and leaning the body parallel to the ground. Certain equipement may also be associated with the eurocarver....such as hard shell boots, plate bindings, and certain clothing.

Fakie - A term used to describe riding backwards. see also Switchstance

Fall Line - The path of least resistance down any given slope.